Daryl Martin

Profile

Biography

I studied English Literature for my first degree at Lancaster University and graduated in 1996. Following my degree I spent six years living in London, where I worked for various companies in the book trade.

I moved to York in 2002 to work in the University Library & Archives and returned to part-time study at York, completing the Masters course in the Sociology of Contemporary Culture in 2006.

I then began work on a PhD in the Sociology department, again part-time, where I also worked for four years as an editorial assistant to Sarah Nettleton in her role as Senior Editor (Medical Sociology) of the journal Social Science & Medicine. I currently work as a Teaching Fellow in the Department.

Research

Overview

My PhD is entitled ‘The practice of everyday life along the M62: in-between the space of flows and the space of places’. It attempts to sketch a sociologically informed analysis of the contemporary evolution of the cities, towns and everyday spaces found along the M62 motorway. The research will have a particular focus on newly emerging examples of domestic and economic space in the places along this route. It will draw together disparate strands of the literature on urbanism, offering a synthesis of the speculative heritage of architectural theory and recent work in cultural geography.

Supervisors: Prof Roger Burrows and Dr Nick Gane
Registration: Part Time MPhil / PhD

Publications

Selected publications

Martin, D. (2011) Eyjafjallajökull 4'33": a Stillness in Three Parts. Mobilities, 6, 1.
Martin, D. (2010) A poetic urbanism: Recreating places, remade to measure, but from the inside out. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 14, 5, pp. 586 - 591.
Martin, D. (2010) Mobilities Based Urban Planning in the North of England. Mobilities, 5, 1, pp.61-81.
Martin, D. (2008) 'The post-city being prepared on the site of the ex-city': Re-aligning the provincial city along the M62 in the North of England. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 12, 3, pp. 372 - 382.

Full publications list

Conference Papers

Martin, D. (2009) ‘Of time and the city’: the M62 and the new landscapes of Northern England. Paper presented at the Routes, Roads and Landscapes conference, Oslo, September 2009.
Martin, D. (2009) From Saltaire to Ikea: the edge city in its prototypical and ubiquitous forms. Paper presented at the Cultural Histories of Sociability, Spaces and Mobility conference, York, July 2009.

Department of Sociology